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| Det kimer nå til kjøpefest, og det har det gjort i lange tider. For så vidt kimer det året rundt. | Ebba Margareta Haslund (1917-) |
| Anledningen till att vi alla går på högvarv inför julen med den eviga, oåterhållsamma och ofta knasiga julklappsshoppingen är antagligen att vi inte riktigt vet hur vi ska uttrycka vår kärlek i ord. | Harlan Miller |
| Det lyser i stilla gränder av tindrande ljus ikväll, och tusende barnahänder håller ljusen mot himlapäll | Jakob Sande (1906-1967) |
| Det måste vara en mänsklig rättighet att tycka att det är fint att vara ensam också på en julafton. | Margrethe Holt (1944-) |
| Det sades alltid om honom att han visste hur man skulle ta vara på julen, om nu någon levande människa kunde det. Må det bli uppriktigt sagt av oss, och alla av oss! Och som Tiny Tim påpekade, Gud välsinge oss, allihop! | Charles Dickens (1812-1870) |
| Det är bara jul en gång om året och det är mer än nog. | Robert Lembke |
| Det är bra att vara barn ibland, och aldrig bättre än på julen då dess mäktiga grundare själv var ett barn. | Charles Dickens (1812-1870) |
| Det är den sanna julkänslan; folk som blir hjäpta av andra än mig. | Jerry Seinfeld (1954-) |
| Där det finns barn är det alltid jul! | Dansk Ordtak |
| En av farorna med julaftonen är att vi av våra hustrur får julklappar som vi inte har råd med. | Robert Lembke |
| En av farorna med julen, är att vi av våra fruar får presenter som vi inte har råd med. | Robert Lembke |
| En gång köpte jag ett par batterier till mina barn i julklapp, med en lapp som sade, "Leksaker ingår ej". | Bernard Manning (1931-) |
| En hemmagjord present säger mer än en färdigköpt pryl. Den säger att man använt tid och kraft. Den säger att det är något personligt. Den säger att man får för lite veckopeng. | Steen og Stoffer |
| Glöm aldrig att om julen inte finns i ditt hjärta så kommer du heller inte finna den under granen. | Charlotte Carpenter |
| I Juletid lek och var så glad det går, för julen kommer bara en gång per år. | Thomas Tusser (1524-1580) |
| I jultider har man tid till att ha tid. | Asta Lie Isaachsen (1861-1921) |
| Inget är mer trist än att vakna på julmorgonen och inte vara ett barn. | Erma Bombeck (1927-1996) |
| Jag kallar julen "Det stora granmordet". | Margit Sandemo (1924-) |
| Jag slutade tro på jultomten när jag var sex år. Min mamma tog med mig till ett köpcentra så att jag skulle få se honom, och så bad han mig om min autograf. | Black Shirley Temple (1928-) |
| Jul är ingen säsong. Det är en känsla. | Edna Ferber (1887-1968) |
| Julen börjar inte förrän den finns i hjärtat | Richard Roberts |
| Julen drar sig tillbaka från Julen när vi går så upp i det materiella | Rosemarie Köhn (1939-) |
| Julen är en disneyfiering av kristendomen. | Don Cupitt |
| Julen är en tid då du får hemlängtan, även när du är hemma. (Svåröversatt) | Carol Nelson |
| Julen är inte en årstid. Den är en känsla. | Edna Ferber (1887-1968) |
| Julen är mer, mycket mer än ljussken och glädje; Den är den sköna vänskapens anda som lyser upp hela året. Den är omtänksamhet och vänlighet, den är hoppet som återföds, för fred, för förståelse, och för välvilja till alla människor! | Charlotte Carpenter |
| Julen är över, och jobb är jobb. | Franklin Pierce Adams (1881-1960) |
| Julklappstips: Till din fiende, förlåtelse. Till en motståndare, tolerans. Till en vän, ditt hjärta. Till en kund, tjänster. Till alla, barhärtighet. Till varje barn, ett gott exempel. Till dig själv, respekt. | Oren Arnold |
| Julkort är straffet man får varje år för att man inte skrev de brev man borde under året. | Ukjent |
| Jultomten har rätt: Hälsa endast på folk en gång om året. | Victor Borge (1909-2000) |
| Kom ihåg, om julen inte finns i ditt hjärta, kommer du inte finna den under granen. | Charlotte Carpenter |
| Lugnande: Också oxar och åsnor får fira jul. | Siegfried von Kortzfleisch |
| Under julen blir många kyrkobesökare förnärmade över att prästen inte kommer ihåg dem från föregående jul. | Holger Thomasen |
| Varför föreslår man så ofta en penningåva i julklapp? Därför att den är så lätt att byta. | Markus M. Ronner |
| Varför förordar man så ivrigt penninggåvor till jul? För att de är så lätta att byta. | Markus M. Ronner |
| Varför är julen som en dag på kontoret? Du gör allt jobb och den feta mannen i rock får all ära. | Edna Ferber (1887-1968) |
| Det er kun jul en gang om året, og det er også rigeligt. | Robert Lembke |
| Let us keep Christmas beautiful Without a thought of greed, That it might live forevermore To fill our every need, That it shall not be just a day, But last a lifetime through, The miracle of Christmastime That brings God close to you | Ann Schultz |
| Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart... filled it, too, with melody that would last forever. | Bess Streeter Aldrich |
| Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. | Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) |
| When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow, we hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago, and etched on vacant places are half-forgotten faces of friends we used to cherish, and loves we used to know. | Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) |
| This is Christmas: not the tinsel, not the giving and receiving, not even the carols, but the humble heart that receives anew the wondrous gift, the Christ. | Frank McKibben |
| I heard the bells on Christmas Day; their old familiar carols play, and wild and sweet the word repeat of peace on earth, good-will to men! | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) |
| Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected | Jimmy Cannon (1910-1973) |
| Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping. | Jon Anderson |
| From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it. | Katherine Whitehorn (1926-) |
| Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness | Lajos Kossuth |
| Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall. | Larry Wilde |
| Christmas is for children. But it is for grownups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide-bound hearts. | Lenora Mattingly Weber |
| Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind. | Mary Ellen Chase (1887-1973) |
| Not to open the hunting season on the pretext that there is no game would be as if one gave up celebrating Christmas because there was not enough snow to go by sleigh to midnight Mass. | Maurice Grimaud |
| Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect. | Oren Arnold |
| Don't expect too much of Christmas Day. You can't crowd into it any arrears of unselfishness and kindliness that may have accrued during the past twelve months. | Oren Arnold |
| The earth has grown old with its burden of care but at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung. | Phillip Brooks |
| Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it. | Richard Lamm |
| He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. | Roy L. Smith |
| Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most. | Ruth Carter Stapleton |
| Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive | Stephen Fry (1957-) |
| Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so | Stephen Leacock (1869-1944) |
| It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air. | W. T. Ellis |
| Christmas is the day that holds all time together. | Alexander Smith (1830-1867) |
| 'Tis blessed to bestow, and yet, Could we bestow the gifts we get, And keep the ones we give away, How happy were our Christmas day! | Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) |
| Christmas... is not an eternal event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart... | Freya Stark (1893-1993) |
| There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed-the four-poster-I'll be needing that to die in. | Helen Hayes (1900-1993) |
| I heard the bells on Christmas Day; their old familiar carols play, and wild and sweet the word repeat of peace on earth, good-will to men! | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) |
| Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind. | Mary Ellen Chase (1887-1973) |
| When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow, we hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago, and etched on vacant places are half-forgotten faces of friends we used to cherish, and loves we used to know. | Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) |
| I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year. | Charles Dickens (1812-1870) |
| The only real blind person at Christmas-time is he who has not Christmas in his heart. | Helen Keller (1880-1968) |
| Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. | Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) |
| One of the nice things about Christmas is that you can make people forget the past with a present | Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993) |
| Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. | Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993) |
| Somehow, not only for Christmas but all the long year through, The joy that you give to others Is the joy that comes back to you. And the more you spend in blessing The poor and lonely and sad, The more of your heart's possessing Returns to you glad. | John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) |
| Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas. | Dale Evans Rogers |
| Probably the reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained and often silly buying of gifts is that we don't quite know how to put our love into words | Harlan Miller |
| From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it. | Katherine Whitehorn (1926-) |
| The time draws near the birth of Christ: The moon is hid; the night is still; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist | Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) |
| Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart... filled it, too, with melody that would last forever. | Bess Streeter Aldrich |
| I have always thought of Christmas as a good time; a kind, forgiving, generous, pleasant time; a time when men and women seem to open their hearts freely, and so I say, God bless Christmas! | Charles Dickens (1812-1870) |
| Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home! | Charles Dickens (1812-1870) |
| I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday - the longer, the better - from the great boarding school where we are forever working at our arithmetical slates, to take, and giv | Charles Dickens (1812-1870) |
| But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round -- apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that -- as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!' | Charles Dickens (1812-1870) |
| A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world! | Charles Dickens (1812-1870) |
| What can I give him,Poor as I am?If I were a shepherd,I would bring a lamb;If I were a wise man,I would do my part;Yet what I can I give him—Give my heart. | Christina G. Rossetti (1830-1894) |
| To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year. | E. B. White (1899-1985) |
| To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year | E. B. White (1899-1985) |
| This is Christmas: not the tinsel, not the giving and receiving, not even the carols, but the humble heart that receives anew the wondrous gift, the Christ. | Frank McKibben |
| The simple shepherds heard the voice of an angel and found their Lamb; the wise men saw the light of a star and found their Wisdom. | Bishop Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1979) |
| Let's be naughty and save Santa the trip. | Gary Allan |
| Probably the reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained and often silly buying of gifts is that we don't quite know how to put our love into words | Harlan Miller |
| I heard the bells on Christmas Day; their old familiar carols play, and wild and sweet the word repeat of peace on earth, good-will to men! | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) |
| The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting. | Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) |
| Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents | Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) |
| Ah! dearest Jesus, Holy Child,Make thee a bed, soft, undefiled,Within my heart, that it may beA quiet chamber kept for thee. | Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) |
| Christmas is the one time of year when people of all religions come together to worship Jesus Christ. | Nancy Cartwright (1957-) |
| Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions. | Orson Welles (1915-1985) |
| Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered. What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day. | Phyllis Diller (1917-) |
| What's going on here is a redefinition of Christmas as a time of family celebration rather than as a time of the community faithful celebrating the birth of the savior...There is a risk that we will lose one more of our Christian rituals, one that's at the heart of our faith. | Robert Johnston |
| Call a truce, then to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors And be merry as the custom of our caste; For if "faint and forced the laughter," and if sadness follow after, We are richer by one mocking Christmas past | Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) |
| Heap on more wood! the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still. | Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) |
| Tinsel is really snakes' mirrors. | Stephen Wright (1955-) |
| I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses. | Taylor Caldwell (1900-) |
| On Christmas day you can't get sore, Your fellow man you must adore, There's time to cheat him all the more The other three hundred and sixty-four | Tom Lehrer (1928-) |
| Consider Christmas—could Satan in his most malignant mood have devised a worse combination of graft plus bunkum than the system whereby several hundred million people get a billion or so gifts for which they have no use, and some thousands of shop clerks die of exhaustion while selling them, and every other child in the Western world is made ill from overeating—all in the name of the lowly Jesus? | Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) |
| Christmas! 'Tis the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial fire of charity in the heart | Washington Irving (1783-1859) |
| Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. | Washington Irving (1783-1859) |
| Christmas is here: Winds whistle shrill, Icy and chill, Little care we; Little we fear Weather without, Sheltered about The Mahogany Tree | William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) |
| Hun følte seg så forsømt som et adventslys julaften. | Werner Mitsch |